CSA Staff Profiles

Allan Atlee, Associate Dean Architecture + Design. Allan was a founding member of the design co-operative GLAS, which undertook community based design consultancy; art projects; agit-prop works; exhibitions; and educational workshops. www.glaspaper.com Whilst teaching at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow he established a teaching and practice collaboration with NORD where he was research coordinator and curated a number of international architecture exhibitions. In 2005 he joined Canterbury School of Architecture as Diploma School Leader and became Head of School in September 2009. 

John Culmer Bell, Course Leader: Graduate Diploma in Architecture (ARB/ RIBA Part II). Founded FXV in 1997, a studio concerned with exploring the potentials of new technologies and media in design. FXV have produced projects for, amongst others, the Millennium commission, Sony Music, Nike, The National Lottery and Daimler Chrysler. Formerly a Unit Master at the Architectural Association’s Diploma Unit 9 and academic advisor to the AA Diploma School, John has exhibited and lectured widely in the UK, Europe and USA, is a trustee of E:vent gallery and continues to maintain an active media art practice.

Dr Hocine Bougdah, Reader in Architectural Technology.  Started his academic and research career back in 1988, when he was working at the School of Architecture, Liverpool University where his research work into lighting in commercial interiors lead to a method of quantifying the effect of obstructions on light loss. More recently, he lead two research projects, one on the effect of classroom acoustic conditions on students’ performance in secondary schools and the second one on the design of novel environmental barriers, to mitigate against road traffic noise. He co-authored two books on architecture and technology, and was long listed for the RIBA international book award for architecture 2007. More recently, he was included in the Marquis Who’s Who™ in Science and engineering.

JJ Brophy is a digital media tutor and technician, he was educated at the University of Huddersfield, completing a BA (HONS) in Virtual Reality Design in 2003 and an MA in 3D Digital Design in 2004 for which he received a distinction, as well as the COEDD (Centre of Excellence in Digital Design) Award. In 2005 he co-founded Alchemation Studios, a multi disciplinary media arts and design practice based in the South East of England. His time is divided between his work at the School and his practice. His teaching and research areas relate to spatial definition and evertion - the act of turning something inside out.

Oliver Froome-Lewis: Course Leader: BA(Hons) Architecture (ARB/ RIBA Part I). Oliver is co-director of the design research unit Touching the City which explores the potential for dialogue between strategic objectives and personal experience in public space. www.touchingthecity.com. He has taught at Cambridge University and the University of Nottingham prior to becoming Degree Course Leader at CSA. As a practicing Architect he has been independently successful in national and international design competitions and has led projects recognised by the RIBA at SIA and Eric Parry Architects.

Carolin Hinne is a former associate at Foster + Partners and has worked with David Adjaye and Peter Zumthor. She graduated from the Architectural Association and was awarded runner up to the RIBA President's Silver Medal for her final year project in 2003. Carolin has recently completed her Masters in Research Architecture at Goldsmith's College. Carolin is currently a unit tutor in Stage 1 at CSA.

Ephraim Joris: Course Leader: BA(Hons) Interior Architecture + Design. Ephraim is a Partner of Architecture Project, an international architecture practice. www.ap.com.mt. His work forms part of a research at RMIT called ‘practice of practices’, studying contemporary notions of architectural practice. He taught at the University of Malta, the University of Malaya in Kuala Lumpur and at Westminster University, London.

Kristina Kotov does something with architecture and film whilst educating, durations of which vary wildly. She has taught in Brighton and the AA among other institutions. Various building workshops of the ‘ranch’ project in Lithuania continues and ‘summer 08’ was exhibited at the Triangle Gallery in London in March 09. Urban and rural film constructs and performances enable fluid progression of research into mnemonic scapes and gestural artefacts. She is a Senior Lecturer at the Canterbury School of Architecture/Interiors, and Design Tutor at Chelsea College of Art & Design MA Interior & Spatial Design.

Charles Neale is a design tutor and a coordinator and teacher of Architectural History and Theory. A graduate of Cambridge, Charles is a Registered Architect; he has worked in practice, participated in community architecture and has also a Degree in Philosophy at the University of London. Charles’s research interests are in the Theory of Architecture. He has published work on Vitruvius and on Semper. As well as a course on Architectural Theory Charles’s teaching at the School includes a series of lectures on the History of Landscape design.

Rob Nice, architectural tutor and technician, co-founded Urban-lab in 1999, a loose collective of artists designers and architects, with an interest of exploring the social, cultural and political layers that construct the built environment.   Prior to joining the Canterbury School of Architecture, he had worked in a number of schools, galleries and museums across the UK, programming and delivering a variety of educational workshops.

Benedict O’Looney is a partner with Morris+O’Looney Architects in south London, working on new build and conservation projects, particularly around Peckham, including the renovation of the grade ll listed Peckham Rye Station for Southwark Council. Since obtaining his Master of Architecture form Yale University, Benedict worked with Grimshaw and Alsop Architects, where an interest in new architecture in historic settings was developed. Benedict taught architecture history for 10 years at the Architectural Association, at the Kent School of Architecture, and for New York University’s London program. He is Chairman of Southwark’s Conservation Areas Advisory Group, on the Victorian Society’s Southern Building Committee and the Vice-President of the London Sketch Club.

Gabor Stark studied architecture at the Technical University Berlin and at the Mackintosh School of Architecture in Glasgow. He worked on interior, architecture and urban design projects as a free-lance architect before he founded his own practice in 2000. tx - büro für temporäre architektur works on theoretical and realization projects focusing on temporal and programmatic aspects of urban transformation processes. The office has successfully participated in national and international urban design competitions and has worked on research projects commissioned by the Senate of Urban Development in Berlin and by the German Federal Ministry of Traffic, Building and Urban Development. Research agendas comprise temporary uses, landscape development, regional planning and programmatic urbanism. Gabor taught architecture and urban design as a guest lecturer and assistant professor in Berlin before he joined the Canterbury School of Architecture in 2007. He teaches on both undergraduate and postgraduate courses and acts as Stage One year convenor. www.tx-architekten.de

Sam Willis graduated with a Masters degree from the Royal College of Art after studying graphic design at Central St Martins. As a Senior Designer at Event Communications Ltd, Europe’s largest museum and exhibition design company, Sam was involved in the creative direction of a number of significant projects including Magna the Stirling prize winning Science Adventure Centre, pod Travelling Exhibition for the WDA, the refurbishment of the Guinness Storehouse in Dublin and interpretative concepts for the National Science and Technology Museum in South Korea. In 2004 Sam began working for herself as a Creative Director. As well as role as a unit tutor at CSA, Sam is also an Associate Lecturer on the MA Creative Practice for Narrative Environments at Central St Martins.